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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, September 1, 2026?

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We Warned You About the AI Yes-Man - MIT Just Proved It With Math

By @knightbat2040 [ 13 Min read ] A simulation study says sycophancy breaks even perfectly rational users and that neither RAG nor user awareness closes the hole. Heres what it actually found. Read More.

Lets Build Our Own LLM (Part 1): Tokenization and Data Prep

By @jayrajch [ 12 Min read ] How LLMs turn text into numbers: BPE tokenization explained step by step, why your choice of tokenizer shapes model quality, and building a data pipeline. Read More.

Why I’m Not Renewing Claude Pro

By @dillydally [ 5 Min read ] I lasted 2 weeks on Claude Pro before I got frustrated with the artificial rolling 5 hour window. Here is a workaround and what Im using instead. Read More.

Linus Torvalds Has a Hallucination

By @zbruceli [ 30 Min read ] What if the 1991 Linus Torvalds woke up in 2026 and called the whole AI stack bad taste? And an open source approach to change that. Read More.

iOS Startup Performance in Practice, Part 1: Understanding Launch Types and Entry Points

By @oreshina [ 24 Min read ] Learn how iOS handles cold and warm launches, resume, scenes, deep links, and notifications - and where startup performance measurement should begin and end. Read More.

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